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Excavating Kafka by James Hawes
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
Kafka's features, and that dreaded word, Kafkaesque, are known to millions who have never read serious literature. Generations of academics and critics have maintained the image of Franz Kafka as a tortured seer whose works defy interpretation. In "Excavating Kafka"James Hawes reveals the truth that lie ...Show more
Exploiting Childhood - How Fast Food, Material Obsession and Porn Culture Are Creating New Forms of Child Abuse by James Hawes (Contribution by); Oliver James (Foreword by); Liz Kelly (Contribution by); Tim Lobstein (Contribution by); Agnes Nairne (Contribution by); Susie Orbach (Contribution by); Renata Salecl (Contribution by); Wayne Warburton (Contribution by); Jim Wild (Editor); Stephen Haff (Contribution by); Adam Barnard (Contribution by); Camila Batmanghelidjh (Foreword by); Stephen D. Brookfield (Contribution by); Maddy Coy (Contribution by); Gail Dines (Contribution by); Sharon Girling (Contribution by)
Category: Parenting
Children deserve to live a life that is safe from exploitation and harm, but are we failing in our duty to protect them? Childhood today is big business - it is impossible for any child growing up to avoid pervasive and intense marketing from companies. Whether it be for fatty foods resulting in childh ...Show more
Speak for England by James Hawes
Category: Fiction
Brian Marley, a divorced Englishman, is alone in the vilest jungle on earth, about to die live on television. A contestant on Brit Pluck, Green Hell, Two Million, the ultimate reality TV show, Marley has managed to outlive his rivals and win enough money to change his life. Except that the TV crew has j ...Show more
The Shortest History of England by James Hawes
Category: History
In the internationally acclaimed Shortest History of Germany, James Hawes showed that the whole sweep of a national story can be captured in a short book packed with maps and graphics, throwing striking new light on the present day. Now he does the same for his own country. From the Roman invasion throu ...Show more
The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes
Category: History
The West is in full retreat. The Anglo-Saxon powers, great and small, withdraw into fantasies of lost greatness. Populists all over Europe cry out that immigration and globalisation are the work of a nefarious System, exploited by unseen masters with no national loyalties. From the Kremlin, Tsar Vladimi ...Show more
The Shortest History of Germany - From Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel--A Retelling for Our Times by James Hawes
Category: History | Series: Shortest History Ser.
2,000 years of all of Germany's history in one riveting afternoon, followed by The Shortest History of China A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern ...Show more
The Shortest History of Germany (HB) by James Hawes
Category: History
A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871-yet today, Germany is the world's fourth-largest economy and a standard-bearer of liberal democ ...Show more
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